Kathryn Walat

NOV 2016 | Theater

Andy Bragens new play, Dont You F**king Say a Word, is a love letter to one of those funny little subcultures that exists in pockets around the cityin this case, the public tennis courts on the Lower East Side, and the eclectic community that has arisen on these battlegrounds of amateur tennis competition.

JUNE 2015 | Theater

Its Clubbed Thumbs 20th Summerworks, the annual June play fest at the core of this downtown theater company thats all about the funny, strange, and provocative. Playwright Kate E. Ryans Card and Gift, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, is the middle child of this years three workswhich is not to say theres any Jan Brady syndrome here.

JUNE 2013 | Theater

As Americans waste away in windowless conference rooms, embezzling a few thousand here and there, living among foreclosure signs, lying to loved ones, to our government, this 29-year-old playwright has taken notice.

NOV 2009 | Theater

Roger Guenveur Smith is a man who knows his history. But the writer-performer doesnt just know it, he lets it under his skin, manipulates it, re-imagines it, and embodies it in shows that are as much about the here-and-now as they are about where we came from.

FEB 2015 | Theater

Bright Half Life begins with a timeless concept: soul mates, an idea that may or may not exist, according to the exuberant deliberations of Erica, as she stands in a hallway, proposing marriage outside the apartment of her ex-girlfriend Vicky.

JUL-AUG 2014 | Theater

When Laura Easons play premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, she was asked to contribute to the companys blog to promote a piece that delves into the intricacies of intimacyand self-promotionin a cyber age.

JUNE 2012 | Theater

In Gina Gionfriddos new play Rapture, Blister, Burn, Catherines got the sexy academic career that every Ph.D. dreams about: another book out, TV appearances on Bill Maher, and an upcoming speaking engagement in Italy.

JUL-AUG 2010 | Theater

Playwright Marcus Gardley is no stranger to the Mississippi. I remember sitting with him on the rivers banks in the Twin Cities three years ago, when he was amazed how the gently flowing water almost couldnt be heard.

DEC 09-JAN 10 | Theater

Roger Guenveur Smith is a man who knows his history. But the writer-performer doesnt just know it, he lets it under his skin, manipulates it, re-imagines it, and embodies it in shows that are as much about the here-and-now as they are about where we came from.

SEPT 2006 | Theater

Mac Wellman is one of the reasons Im a playwright. His play A Murder of Crows was the first thing we read (after Fornes) in my undergraduate playwriting class lead by then-grad student Nilo Cruz. The fact that plays could be like thisa weird girl conjuring up the weather with words that made your mouth waterjust made me want to write them.